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My mother lived at Haccombe House and worked for Lord & Lady Carew from the age of 13yrs. in 1914 until about 1930. The Carew family had other residences in London, Highcliffe (Bournemouth), and South ...Read more

A memory of Newton Abbot in 1910 by Margaret Hawkins

I'm a born & bred Countesthorpe lass & spent my first 16 years of life enjoying the village very much before moving on to pastures new. I lived just across the road from the post office.

A memory of Countesthorpe by Gaynor Love

My name's David Meacham - When I was very small I used to live in the cottage on the right - Number 10 Bremhill. It was a wonderful place to be a child - few cars then of course - and the freedom to roam the village without any fear. The ...Read more

A memory of Bremhill in 1962 by David Meacham

I was born at Hanney Camp but I have no memories as my parents moved when I was 6 months old. I think we lived at no 10 or 10a as the address was on my medical card. My mum use to tell me stories about her life there and she ...Read more

A memory of Steventon in 1948

I was born in Perivale Maternity Hospital in 1943. Like so many of your writers growing up then was a magical time; the freedom we had to wander the fields, play and fish in the canal (in homemade boats ...Read more

A memory of Greenford by John Bowring

Our family moved to Northolt (Mildred Avenue) around 1956 from Harlesden and I left in 1978. I have great memories of Wood End infants/junior school. Playing near Northolt Park Station and anoying the station master who we ...Read more

A memory of Northolt by Brian Holder

I was born in Barnet in 1942, but the Germans bombed our house and killed my dad a few months later. I was sent to Wales to avoid the Blitz. (BlitzKrieg - Lightening strikes) after 5 years I found myself in Millway Gardens in ...Read more

A memory of Northolt by Philip Yorke Edgell

I lived in Burton from 1948 until 1966. I have such fond memories of the village as it was then. There were a group of lads that I was part of viz. Brian Bradshaw, Stewart Salrein, Roger Taylor, Anthony Blundell and we were ...Read more

A memory of Burton in Lonsdale in 1948 by Peter Willan

If anyone were to ask me when I was most happy, I would have to go back some considerable time to those years spent in Wheatley Hill, more especially the late 1940s all of the 1950s and early 1960s. Truly magical ...Read more

A memory of Wheatley Hill in 1954 by Frank Dinsdale

My brother in law was to look after pigs at a farm which I believed belonged to a Major Wills in Thatcham. Now it was the summer time and as far as I can recall my sister had not long since had a baby and that she was somewhat ...Read more

A memory of Thatcham in 1959 by Roland Mitchell